Bluehost : CPU exceeded… DOS attack?

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This is a bluehost question posted by Raph on 29 January 2007

On 1/24 and previous, I had virtually no reports of problems in my logs. I’d had some issues with slow SQL queries from time to time (I run a pretty popular WordPress blog), but nothing too dramatic.

On 1/25 and since, my cpu_exceeded_logs are full. Like, from 0k I have gone to

2007-01-25.log 85 k
2007-01-26.log 268 k
2007-01-27.log 50 k
2007-01-28.log 410 k
2007-01-29.log 317 k (this is just so far today!)

I added WP-Cache to my installs. I removed some plugins from my site. I upgraded to WP 2.1. None of it seems to have made any difference, really.

The result is constant unavailability of the site, as I trigger the CPU utilization suspension.

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